ukraine, and the white house has been working with the negotiators to reach some sort of agreement. and the white house is expressing optimism that the house leader mike johnson and the senate chuck schumer have reached an agreement, but it is still unclear if they will have to time and the will to get these funding bills passed before the january 19th and february 2nd deadlines and also whether the conservatives will try to use this to push forward stricker immigration and border policy changes. thank you, arlette and manu. we will talk further with michael schnell congressional reporter for the hill, and also, our congressional reporter for the hill, and we go to michael first. this is a first step, and we have heard manu explain all of
non-defense spending that will also include an additional about $70 billion that was part of a side deal for non-defense spending that was struck between president biden and the house then house speaker kevin mccarthy last spring. these figures that they have agreed to are pretty in line with what biden and mccarthy had outlined. there are still a number of hurdles ahead as they try to meet these upcoming deadlines. there s questions about whether lawmakers will be able to write this type of legislation fast enough before the first january 19th deadline and the second february 2nd one. then there s some conservatives who want to use this moment as leverage to try to force the administration to make some more stringent immigration and border policy changes. now president biden in his statement praising this agreement said, quote, congressional republicans must do their job, stop threatening to shut down the government and fulfill their basic responsibility and fund critical domestic a
this government funding deadline as leverage to try to enact and impose stricter immigration and border policy changes. that is something that we have heard recently from some republican members. there s timing issues, whether the lawmakers in relevant committees will be able to write these funding bills, allot all of the funding figures before the first january 19th deadline where some agencies will start to lose funding, including veterans and the fda. then there s that next funding deadline on february 2nd. president biden in his statement tonight said that it is time for republicans to act. he said, quote, congressional republicans must do their jobs. stop threatening to shut down the government and fulfill their basic responsibility to fund critical domestic and national security priorities, including my supplemental request. that supplemental request is relating to aid for ukraine, israel, and border security.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is considering trying to negotiate directly with the White House on border policy changes that have so far been confined to a bipartisan group of Senate negotiators. A source familiar confirmed that Johnson said on a Thursday call with first-term GOP lawmakers that he was weighing talking to the White House directly on border…
transitions to a lower intensity phase of fighting. that is something that the u.s. has encouraged israel do. and a senior u.s. official said they believed that they were starting to see the beginning of that strategy, that tactic, when it announced that they would be withdrawing some of their troops from gaza as israel is preparing for a prolonged fight heading into 2024. now, secretary of state antony blinken will be traveling to israel later in the week as he is expected to start talking about that next phase in fighting with officials on the ground there. but there is also a host of domestic issues that president biden has to tackle once he is back in washington. that includes the border crisis as there has been a recent surge in migrants on the southern border really adding additional stresses to an already strained system. congressional negotiators have yet to settle on a deal regarding border policy changes, even as president biden has said he is willing to make some concessions